title: Correlations between functional performance, health-related quality of life, and parental impact on children with developmental delays.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine the correlation of function, quality of life (QOL), and parental impact on developmental delayed children.
  
  
  METHODS
  Sixty parents of children with developmental delays (M:F = 36:24, mean age 4 years and 2 months) and 56 parents of age-sex matched typical development children were included. Pediatric Outcomes Data Collection Instrument and Child Health Questionnaire for children, World Health Organization-QOL, Impact on Family Scale, and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale for parents were assessed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Functional performance was correlated with physical component of QOL in children (correlation coefficients: 0.7-0.9; p < 0.01), age of children (0.3-0.4; p < 0.05) and parents (0.3; p < 0.05), maternal employment (0.3-0.4; p < 0.05), parental QOL (0.3-0.4; p < 0.01), family impact (-0.3 to -0.5; p < 0.01), and parental emotion (-0.3 to -0.4; p < 0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Children who exhibited higher levels of function had higher QOL, as did their parents, and less parental impact.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital , Taipei , Taiwan.
authors.forename: Ru-Lan
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Hsieh
authors.forename: Ming-I
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Hsiao-Yuan
authors.initials: HY
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Wen-Chung
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002658:Developmental Disabilities / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011788:Quality of Life; D012737:Sex Factors; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires